I guess its no longer online, both above links to project ballantain are dead or redirect to some russian provider.

by cjr
The latest version of Ballantain in my possesion is dated May 18, 1999. It was the final release before freesco although freesco was already in development for a while prior.

freesco 010 was released June 26, 1999

freesco 020 on September 29th same year

freesco 023a was out November 22nd and an updated kernel and modules were a Christmas present, released on Christmas eve 1999 (because my ipsec kernel was a troublemaker… oops!)

next was 025 on March 17th (Y2K)

v026 on May 24 (maybe a little later)

and the venerable 027 which was October 7th 2000 and lasted pretty well. ~2yrs, I made my 1.68MB version of 027 a few days later (14th).

That was the last release Simon (or any of us really (Serge, myself or Simon) really worked on. Serge sent me freesco2b1 on January 26th 2001, freesco-030 in May (5th) and 030pre a few days later (11th) and that, I believe, would be what Lightning based the current 030 on.